This is an analysis of the poem Patience that begins with:
Be patient with you?
When the stooping sky... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbccbdD AeffedD AcddcdDXAdccddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001 10101 110101 1100111101 11010101 0111010111 1101 01001 10111 101101 0101100101 01011101 0111011101 1101 01001 11101 110101 0111110111 10110101 01010100111 1101 01001 11111 1100010 11010101110 10110101 1111111100 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The author used the same word be at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word then at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Patience;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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